So Kemi Badenoch comes on Breakfast TV to answer questions about the donations made to the Conservatives party by a man who was labelled a racist over comments made about black MP Diane Abbott.
She was grilled by John Kay on the racist issue and made it quite plain that she was fed up with the whole thing. She had originally come out and labelled the donator as a racist for his remarks. Now of course she wants to temper those comments because this man, Frank Hestor, has given a considerable amount of dosh to the Tory party and you don't really want to bite the hand that feeds you even if that hand is attached to a racist.
Now Ms Badenoch wants to talk about how much money the Government is ploughing into x y and z and what projects she is involved in and with and cannot understand why the BBC is still talking about something from last week.
The sad and sorry fact is that very few people are now interested in the Government's claims. We are too far down the road. But her comments did make for an interesting interview which in itself is something unusual.
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Watched some of the men's singles final from the prestigious Indian Wells tennis tournament and realised I had no idea where Indian Wells is.
Turns out it's a city in California. A very small city with a population of under 5,000 which is over 2,000 less than we have in Hethersett which is still a village. Apparently Indian Wells incorporated itself as a city to prevent it being swallowed up by neighbouring cities. In other words keeping it's identity.
It must be rather strange during the tournament when the city is presumably swelled to at least twice its size and probably much more.
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Watched an interview on BBC breakfast to promote a new film which looks interesting.
It's called Silver Haze and basically it's the story of a young girl disfigured in an arson attack. I believe it tells the story of her struggles and coming to terms with her injuries.
The person whose life the film is based on appeared on TV and was asked for a parting message and said.
"If you live in the past you will never get to the future." Very good unless you are an historian of course.
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Travel programmes can be good or very bad. There's one coming up that makes me cringe. Anton Du Beke ( born plain old Anthony Beck) is teaming up with Giovanni Pernice to visit Sicilly where Pernice comes from.
This promises to be another of those toe curling embarrassing travel programmes full of back slapping, smiles and falseness.
Much better is anything featuring Simon Reeve. I caught up on one featuring Australia where he highlighted the plight of Aborigines and what went on in refugee detention centres. There was plenty of the usual froth but you have to have some entertainment amongst all the angst.
Back to Sicily. Their programme ends in Palermo which has to be the least favourite place I have ever had the misfortune to visit.
I have to admit that I thought Giovanni was the Italian guy who cooked stuff and hosted Family Fortunes. But that was Gino D'Acampo. Mea culpa.